important questions about lessons

[moonlightmikaylah]

hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what are lessons like? ~mm

[hyrst]

Hi Mikaylah,
I'm happy for you that you are learning piano and I hope you really enjoy it and are able to learn all you want to

Lessons are all different - different teachers and students, and the same student will experience different lessons most weeks. 

As a teacher, I want students to learn at least one thing new every time they have a lesson, something they would not have worked out on their own.  As a student, I have been through a lot of learning and I don't get something new most weeks.  But, I have somebody to listen and make suggestion who knows what they are talking about - especially in how to express the music more clearly.  Sometimes I can ask my teacher about a technique problem, sometimes he has the answer.  (If I was a beginner, he would have more to say, I guess.)

Most of all, lessons for me are about relationship.  Someone who can share music with me, or vice versa, but in a way that is relevant to ME, not just any music.  Someone to whom I am accountable so that it isn't as easy to spend several dyas without practice and think  I can get away with it.  Someone to ask questions if I am completely frustrated - I can usually work out my problem better after talking about it, I stumble onto the solution many times after a lesson when it couldn't be found before (even if my teacher was unhelpful).  Someone to listen to me so I have practice playing in fornt of other poeple.

Lessons can be hard work.  I often feel disappointed if I haven' t worked hard in a lesson - usually becuase of tiredness or the teacher talking too much.  That is because good lessons are also expensivve - an investment. 

Lessons give you the chance to learn things you didn't know you needed to learn.

[faulty_damper]

hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what are lessons like? ~mm

Your question is like asking what are people like.  It's incredibly varied.  Some are assholes, jerks, and murderers.  Others are assholes, jerks, and serial murderers.  But not all of them will murder you.

Some will be kind.  Even fewer will actually know they are there to help you progress faster than if you went at it alone.

[concerto_love]

hmm... It's varies... Myself, it's my second home... My teacher is very nice to me.